Sixty percent. That’s the proportion of Americans who should be able to hang a framed college diploma on their walls by the year 2025 … if the nation embraces several goals being pushed by various organizations. It’s a lofty goal, but plenty of leaders are saying it needs to happen. Here are just a few of the [...]

In today’s society, many workers spend more time in their offices than they do at home, especially people employed in human resource management . Everyone wants to have a comfortable workplace, and many human resources departments have noticed an increase in worker productivity if they provide their employees with a comfortable, eco-friendly…[Read more]

Clean Energy for a Strong U.S.A. is a short film that explores clean energy economy in a new way. You’ll hear from laid-off workers given another chance by clean energy investments; veterans who know their role in the clean energy economy will make America safer; and business leaders and investors who see new ways to [...]

Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Language is fossil poetry.” Percy Bysshe Shelley said “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” The sentiment is essentially the same: there is power in metaphor, and the work of poets is to…[Read more]

CafeSentido.com :: In this 2007 TED talk, the novelist Isabel Allende speaks about passion as a guiding, even humanizing principle, about the “best four minutes” of her life, walking the Olympic stadium at the Torino Games, Rose Mapendo’s amazing story of struggle and survival, and the tragic inequity women suffer across the global economy.…[Read more]

CafeSentido.com :: In this 2007 TED talk, the novelist Isabel Allende speaks about passion as a guiding, even humanizing principle, about the “best four minutes” of her life, walking the Olympic stadium at the Torino Games, Rose Mapendo’s amazing story of struggle and survival, and the tragic inequity women suffer across the global economy.…[Read more]

Scientists at the University of Nottingham, in the UK, have inscribed the entire Periodic Table of the Elements on a human hair. It is the smallest known record of the Periodic Table, and a breakthrough moment in nano-scale inscription (and potentially: engineering). According to the New Scientist magazine : “To achieve this nanoscale feat, they…[Read more]

At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we held the first of our series of Climate Talks, to explore with more depth and more detail some of the intricacies of the climate crisis, including social, philosophical and political, dynamics, and the way we frame our perception of global-scale phenomena. It was [...]